Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-11-19
A SENSATIONS
Opinion of a Fashionable Woman of the
World.

"Do you expect to win in your dress
reform movement ~ was asked of Mrs.
Annie Jenness- Miller, 10 E. 14th St., New
York, editor of Dress.
81 hope top
"Why do you object to the present
style?"
at is ungraceful, reforming and in
furious"
do ladies generally support the re-
form?"
Eyes, very generally. My correspond
ence is very heavy Next to Mrs. Cleve-
lands, mine is said to be the largest
daily mail of any woman's in the United
States, and from not only every State in
the Union, but from almost every coun-
try of Europe"
as the magazine Dress succeeding"
Every handsomely indeed. Dress has
been published less than year, and /
am gratified with reports from all over
the world of the acceptance by ladies in
the very highest rank of the reform
which Dress advocates"
Mrs. Miller is comedy woman in APP
pearance, and is very enthusiastic in her.
dress-reform agitation AS the New
York Graphic says "She herself is young
and attractive, with figure so har-
moniously developed as to suggest
strength, power and beauty"
The reform which she is urging with
so much eloquence and grace seems to be
the coming one. Mrs. Jenness- Miller
has the advantage of high social posi-
ton, being of the same family with the
late Wendell Phillips and the poet,
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
at is in the fashionable world, of
course, where all the styles are deter
mined, and where the change must BEGIN"
she says.
GLOW do you endure so much work
and keep so well?"
81 dress myself according to my own
ideas; and furthermore, l give myself
the best of care and treatment. Six
years ago l was nearly exhausted from
my work of lecturing, writing, etc."
'1ndeed you do not look like it now p
mo. l am not now. l am now q
perfectly we'll woman and intend to re-
main so. You see l understand the
laws of life too we'll to be or remain ill;
but strange as it may seem for one to
say who is opposed to medicines on gen.
eral principles, if find myself tired or
feeling i'll fly to the one single remedy
which l do endorse, and that is Warmers
safe cure, which gives new energy and
vitality to all my powers. 1t is indeed
what sometimes call my standby !
have many opportunities to recommend
it, and embrace them gladly, because
know that it is thoroughly reliable, and
for women especially cfeetive. Indeed,
often find myself recommending it to
my friends as warmly as do my maya
zine, or indeed my improved garments,
and this l would not do did not per.
sonally know of its virtues"
Mrs. Miller insists that all women can
and must be beautiful, and will be so if
they follow her style of dress and self
treatment.
"Will you not state briefly in just
what your reform consists?"
80, with pleasure Ipropose a jersey
fitting garment to be worn next to the
body, making of woman vision of
loneliness.
II. "Over this put cotton or linen
garment of one piece, without bands or
binding, covering the entire body also
III. "In place of the petticoats pro-
pose one complete body covering gar
ment called 1eglettes.'
~. eve abandon the corset entirely
as totally unfit for use in its common
form, and we substitute therefor supple
supporting waist, and then we make the
outside gown as beautiful as artistic
skill and common sense can design"
Mrs. Miller's words of counsel, which
every woman should heed will nm
doubtedly give to the women of America
come new ideas upon subject so very
near to each of them.